... to create meaning, whether it is explicit through character dialogue or implicit through film techniques. Nevertheless, both forms of expression collaborate effectively, demonstrating the main ideas of the narrative, where Austen is limited to punctuation in order to create her meaning. As Cher changes from a shopping obsessed teenager, to a more mature and thoughtful young women, the style of her dressing reflects ... with Josh and thus wears comfortable clothes. Thus, this shows how the different mediums affect how the visual and written text collaborates to generate identical meaning...

• Word Count: 3852
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... conveyed through each text are essentially the same. The society and time in which Emma and Clueless were composed are very dissimilar from one another. Emma was written by Jane Austen in 1815, in a society where marriage and social standing were of great consequence. In the early nineteenth century, a woman married, above all, for financial security and social acceptability. Matrimony ... the same man would be referred to as a "Barney-. The novel contains immense paragraphs of description which deal with the feelings and situations of each character in thorough detail. Austen employs l...

• Word Count: 1742
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... heroine is transformed from an ignorant, spoilt brat to a rational, perceptive character through her own downfall. However, the composers achieve the ironic mode of the text through different methods. Austen uses the omniscient narrator with simple, precise language and a refined writing style to accomplish humour, sarcasm, wit and dramatic irony. With this, she is able to gently criticise the insular ... comments that she has an "ordinary" life for a teenager whilst picking her clothes for school using a computer. As if! During the Regency period, the social order for Jane Austen's soc...

• Word Count: 1760
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , the viewer sees Clueless as a retrospect of Emma - penetrating examinations and commentaries of their contemporary society. The film is therefore no longer a simple entertainment but a movie that cleverly expels Austen's ironic voice and moral sense. Both Emma and Clueless reconstruct specific social environments and address an audience of that similar environment. Clueless is an epitome of how popular culture can ... transform a society's etiquette and code to make them appeal to the updated audience and society. During Austen's time in which Emma was written, society was based on a h...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate